Do you mean the English flag or the British flag? The English flag is the St Georges cross ie a red addition cross on a white background. The British flag, properly called the Union Flag or sometimes the Union Jack, is an amalgam of the flags of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Perhaps because the voters in 1900 felt a need for something more colorful then a plain white flag bearing the State Seal. In any case it was named the State Flag by a vote to alter its design as an amendment to the State Constitution.
The Queen Anne Flag
The are no stripes on the English flag. The flag of England is a red cross of St.George on a white background. The flag of the United Kingdom has the the St. George's cross superimposed on the crosses of St.Patrick (Ireland) and St.Andrew (Scotland).
The flag consists of a red cross on a white background. The Flag of England is the St George's Cross.
The Maple Leaf flag was chosen in 1967.
The Nation Flag of Canada is the current flag of Canada and it was chosen as the new flag on January 28, 1965. But the flag was inaugurated on February 15, 1965.
The Maple Leaf
Every state has a State Flag that represents themselves. The state of New York passed a resolution to adopt their State Flag in 1788.
The American flag was chosen in 1958. It was designed by a 17yr old student called Robert G. Heft. He created it for a school project.
Canada's current flag was chosen on February 15, 1965.
There is no blue on the English flag
Pledge in English Guatemala's flag
"The chosen" in English is l'eletto in Italian.
southern cross
The Australian flag was chosen from thousands of entries in a competition held in 1901. On 3 September 1901, the new Australian flag flew for the first time from the top of the Exhibition Building in Melbourne. The flag was simplified, and approved by King Edward VII in 1902.
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